Transylvania has been home to cultural diversity for many centuries and down to the present, says Keul (religious studies, Norwegian U. of Science and Technology, Trondheim), but one of the most attra
Yang (education, Beijing Institute of Technology, China) provides an English translation of the last two volumes of the Education Blue Book, published in 2007 and 2008 in China and consisting of 29 es
Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.In Muqarnas articles are being pub
Here Jongerden (technology studies, Wageningen U.) examines Turkey's practice of social and cultural engineering, which he feels is based on an idiosyncratic understanding of modernity. Armed with too
Revising her 1994 Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Kosak (classics, Bowdoin College) explores Greek beliefs about suffering and the technology of healing in the fifth centu
From blogs to wikis to digitized editions of ancient texts now discoverable online, digital technology allows scholars to engage ancient texts in novel ways. Contributors to this volume explore what t
Science historian Applebaum (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago) presents a translation of Jeremiah Horrocks' (1618-41) treatise on the 1639 transit of Venus across the face of the su
This reference was meticulously prepared by two authors who independently envisioned its creation. They began working together in 2002, met only once in person but used all the technology that makes l
Contemporary social theorist Alain Touraine offers a more far-reaching hermeneutical dimension than either Giddens or Habermas, argues Ballantyne (sociology, Swinburne U. of Technology, Australia), bu
In Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons, Gergely Csiky offers an account of the classification, manufacturing techniques, distribution, chronology, cultural contacts, and social significance of polearm
Schafer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) presents 14 articles exploring issues of technological knowledge circulation and transmission in Chinese history. The papers have bee
The first two volumes of this multi-volume work were published in 2005; this third volume itself comprises two books bound separately but sold together as one. The first is devoted to text, and the se
Sociologists and scholars of religion and other fields in Asia, the Philippines, and Europe investigate how recent technological developments such as the Internet influence how people in Asian societi
Most studies of old watermills and windmills provide a technical description of the type of mill, and an account of its chronological development and geographical diffusion. Lucas, a researcher and po
Archaeologists and art and architectural historians, together with general readers interested in prehistoric life and culture will find a wealth of information in this two-volume work, which sets out
This collection of studies on the ways water was used and manipulated in Europe between AD 500 and 1500 provides complete coverage of the technologies related to water in a vital period of technologic
Provides a comprehensive concordance to the Syriac New Testament according to the British and Foreign Bible Society's edition. The publication of this computer-generated Concordance fills a long term
